Jordan’s tourism revenues exceeds $1bn

The Kingdom’s tourism revenues rose in the first fourmonths of 2014 by 11.1 percent to $1.026 billion compared to $924.4 million in thesame period of 2013, according to the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ).The Bank said on Wednesday that Jordan’s tourism revenues rose for the thirdconsecutive month and increased in March this year by 9.1 percent to reach $370million.The CBJ attributed the rise in revenues to the increase in the number of visitors fromthe Arab Gulf states, the United States, Libya and Yemen .It said that these developments point to recovery in the tourism sector, which is oneof the main sources of foreign currency income for the Kingdom.